Today is the last day to file comments for the net neutrality consultation that Ofcom, the UK telecom regulator, is conducting. As I was reading the consultation document and reflecting about the state of traffic management in the UK — where different ISPs target different applications for throttling or prioritization at different times of day [...]
For the past 10 days or so, a debate has been raging (see CNET, Free Press, AT&T, and the IETF discussion mailing list) in the techiest, wonkiest corner of the Internet policy universe about whether the Differentiated Services (DiffServ) standards developed by the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) were designed to facilitate the ability for [...]
Categories: Net Neutrality, Standards
It’s been awhile since I last surveyed the traffic management policies of some of the largest UK retail ISPs. The chart below is up-to-date as of this week. ISP Has traffic management policy? Hours of application Takes application-specific action? Apps/protocols targeted AOL Broadband Yes Typically applies in the “evenings” Unclear because policy lacks details BT [...]
Categories: DPI, Net Neutrality
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I’ve heard for some time now that most if not all broadband ISPs in the UK have implemented some sort of congestion management on their networks (beyond what TCP itself provides) and that in many cases these management policies are targeting specific application types. But in my search for a comprehensive resource documenting these policies, [...]
Categories: DPI